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What does has-been mean?

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Noun
  1. (pejorative) A person, especially one formerly popular or influential, who continues in their field after their popularity or effectiveness has peaked and is now in decline.
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As a writer Shepard is not nearly in the land of the has-been.
On Wednesday, TV Land is rerunning an episode of Fantasy Island with Phil Silvers as a has-been vaudevillian.
The judge asks him if he can think of any reason he shouldn't be shipped off to prison and if there's anyone out there who cares about a washed-up has-been.
By the end of the year, they may be calling me a has-been and roasting McRae for getting me on the team.
The next day, at the audition, Betty has to act the same scene with a lecherous has-been, and suddenly she does it with surprising lubricity.
I may appear to be a potbellied, balding, middle-aged, dimwitted has-been.

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